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They saw me in the booth, but not the rest of us, and turned to enter the next one. Though they were talking in low tones, we could catch words and phrases now and then, which told us that we ourselves would have to be very careful about being overheard. "We've got to be careful," one of them remarked in a scarcely audible undertone.
The clerks meanwhile had a subject for conversation which kept their tongues wagging in an undertone, to the neglect of their work. 'The new lady-clerk! Who would have believed it? And she gave me her card for all the world like a duchess. Here there was a snigger, and one of his fellow-clerks asked how duchesses gave their cards.
Thus it went on, until, just as we heard number fifteen drop, we also heard a Rebel voice say in a vicious undertone: "Halt! halt, there, d n you!" This was enough.
Just then Gershom Waring came out of the cabin, gaping like a hound, and stretching his arms, as if fairly wearied with sleep. At the sight of this man the Indian made a gesture of caution, saying, however, in an undertone: "How is heart Yankee or Breesh love Montreal, eh? Pretty good scalp! Love King George, eh?" "I rather think not, but am not certain.
"Who is it?" she whispered, unsuspiciously, for she could see only a vague form darkening the space between the parted curtains. The answer came in a hoarse undertone: "Ye dainty little darling!" She sat up, struck out madly, screamed at the top of her lungs. The curtains fell back into place, the snoring stopped. Susan, all in a sweat and a shiver, lay quiet.
Loving the mother country with passion, the sense of exile long remained with them a double exile, since they had first taken firm hold in Leyden, and parted from its ease and prosperity with words which hold the pathos and quiet endurance still the undertone of much New England life, and which, though already quoted, are the key note of the early days.
"Galpin, Galpin!" The other man paid no attention. Having taken a note-book and a pencil from his pocket, he drew up close to the sick man's bed, and asked him in an undertone, "Are you strong enough, count, to answer my questions?" "Oh, perfectly!" "Then, pray tell me all you know of the sad events of to-night." With the aid of his wife and Dr.
Lisa had her work-basket, and with deft fingers and a little undertone of psalmody was fashioning a pretty summer garment. Then Miss Rachel came and tossed a basketful of early roses and syringa down beside Phil, and put a little table beside him, with some slender glass vases and a pitcher of water, and asked him to arrange the flowers for her.
There were other professors, some of them brilliant in the extreme, whose whole attitude toward the Bible and Christ seemed to have an undertone of flippancy, and who fairly delighted to find an unauthentic portion over which they might haggle away the precious hours of the class-room.
Behind me, I heard Tammy give a little start. He had not known about it until then. The Skipper nodded. "So much the better," he answered. "I may have to speak to you about that, later on." He paused, and the Second Mate said something to him, in an undertone. "Yes," he said, as though in reply to what the Second had been saying. Then he spoke to me again.
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